Different Annotation format between DT and DTTG

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I just moved to DT and DTTG from Evernote.

I have DT on three Macs and DTTG on my iPhone and iPad. I am syncing using iCloud CloudKit and so far everything is going well.

As I am starting to explore DT in more depth, first thank you to everyone on the team for a very powerful tool. I am looking forward to learning more.

One thing I encountered as a newcomer. It does seem strange that DT and DTTG have different default file formats for annotations.

Since DTTG uses Markdown as its annotation format, I was expecting to find a preference in DT to have DT use the same annotation file format.

Is there a preference that I am missing to do this?

Thank you in advance and thank you again for all your work on DEVONthink!

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Thanks for the nice feedback!

It does seem strange that DT and DTTG have different default file formats for annotations.

Remember iOS ≠ macOS and technologies underlying them are not all the same.

Rich text is not a mobile-format and presents extra development challenges to support. Therefore Markdown is the native Annotation file format.

There is no preference to set a default file format for Annotation files in DEVONthink. You can choose a template Annotation file in the Annotation flyout in the inspector.

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